McCleary search to get help

Lindsey was last seen at about 9:15 pm Friday night, June 26, 2009, leaving her friend's home after she visited on Maple Street. (Courtesy of McCleary Police Department)

Lindsey was last seen at about 9:15 pm Friday night, June 26, 2009, leaving her friend's home after she visited on Maple Street. (Courtesy of McCleary Police Department)

Grays Harbor County investigators plan to call in new experts as family members prepare to spend their first Christmas without 11-year-old Lindsey Baum, who vanished from a McCleary street six months ago.

Additional missing-child experts are expected to review the investigation in the coming weeks, Undersheriff Rick Scott announced during a news conference Tuesday.

“I don’t think that anyone in this room thought that we’d still be here doing this six months later, but we are. We are far from being done,” Scott said. On Saturday, it will have been a half-year since Lindsey disappeared.

Full-time investigators continue to comb through nearly 1,200 tips in the case, with help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Scott pledged to devote as many resources to the search as possible.

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Lindsey disappeared June 26 while walking the short distance home after playing with a friend. Despite sightings of Lindsey along the way, she never made it home, and investigators have found no evidence explaining her disappearance.